Tongue and teeth set for dolls and the like and tool for attaching the same



Nov. 17, 1931. s. MARCUS D TEETH S LLS TONGUE AN ET FOR DO AND TOOL ATTA NG THE SAME .7

Fil Jan. .1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 AND THE LIKE i' 1 I 1 "2 v Nov. 17, 1931. s. MARCUS 1,832,465 TONGUE AND TEETH SET FOR DOLLS AND THE LIKE AND TOOL FOR ATTACHING THE SAME Filed Jan. 16. 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR ,Siwzzzellfqwzp BY hzLs ATTORN EY Patented Nov. 17, 1931 UNITED STATES SAMUEL MARCUS, F RIVERDALE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

TO MLA'RGON CORPORATION; OF YORK, N. Y., A CORPQRATIQN OF NEW YORK ATENT OFFICE I i TONGUE AND- TEETH SET FOR DOLLS AND THE LIKE AND TOOL FOR ATTACHINTG THE SAME Application filed January 16, 1930. Serial No. 421,085.

This invention relates to a tool for use in attaching tongue and teeth sets within doll heads and the like, the present application being acontinuation in part of application 1 Serial No. 223,941, filed October 4th, 1927,

and patented January 21st, 1930, No. 1,744,129.

An objectof the present invention is to provide improved, practical and efficientmeans by which to effect attachment of a tongue. and teeth set, within a doll head.

A more detailed object is to provide atool of this type adapted for the attachment of tongue and teeth sets where said sets have bendable t-angs, the tool being adapted to bend said tangs and thereby force them into impaled engagement within the material of the doll head.

A further object is to. provide a tool upon which the tongue and teethsetv may be placed and over which a doll head maybe introduced to. bring the set. into proper relative position within the mouth opening of the head, the set being visible from without the r head and the tool serving to hold the set, im-

movable with respect to the attaching operation.

Other objects and aimsv of the invention, more or less specific than those referred to above, will be in part obvious and in part pointed out in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts and applications of principles constituting the invention; and

head during the the scope of protection contemplated will be indicated in the appended'claims.

In the. accompanyingdrawings which are to be taken as a part of this specification, and in which I have shown merely a preferred form of embodiment of the invention 1 is a vertical sectional view through a portion of a doll head showing the, same in position with respect to a tool of the type contemplated herein, the tongue and teeth set being in position upon the tool and about to be attached within the doll head.

Fig, 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but illustratingthe position of the parts. after the set has been attached to. the doll'head.

Fig; 3 is afront elevational view of a tongue, and teeth set such as is adapted for attachment by the tool illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

Figs. :4 to 7 illustrate a modified construction of tool and its manner of opera tion, Fig. 4: being an end view of the tool and showing a tongue and teeth set mounted thereon about to be connected with a doll head, Fig. 5 being a side elevational view of the tool and set illustrated in Fig. 4:, Fig. 6 being a top plan view of said tool and set, and Fig. 7 being a view similar to a portion of Fig. 4 but illustrating the parts as they appear at the completion of the operation of attaching the set to the doll head, and

Fig. 8' is a view similar to Fig. l'but on a smaller scale and illustrating the tool as provided witha presser member which is desirable in some instances to assist in the operation of attaching the tongue and teeth set withina doll head.

Referring to the drawings for describing in detail the structures illustrated therein,

dicates what may be conveniently referred to as a back portion or base of the tongue and teeth set. This base is pressed or otherwise formed to provide a central tongue protuberance or portion as G.

A teeth portion is indicated by the reference character H adjacent to the tongue and in front of the base, the base being intended to appear, in use, as the inner surface of the mouth.

It should be explained that the term tongue and teeth set, as herein used, is merely a. commercial term generally used with reference to sets of the type which the tool conmituting the present invention is adapted to attach in position within the doll head and is here intended to comprehend any form of device arranged within the mouth or similar opening of a doll head.

The base portion L may be colored on its outer surface to correspond with the desired 'color for the interior of the mouth, for inwith the desired color for the tongue, also red, while the teeth may of course be colored to appropriately imitate teeth, for instance white.

In the structure illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3 the teeth are formed as a bent-over extension of the base L and they provide a surface portion as l of the set adapted to be engaged by an inner surface part of the doll head when the set is moved into position within the head preparatory to fastening the set in place. Other portions as 2 and 3 of the set spaced from each other and from portion 1 are arranged also to engage against different parts of the inner wall surfaces of the doll head at this time and all of said portions of the set co-operate with each other and with the head to definitely define the position of the set with respect to the head prepannory to the attaching operation, the portions 1, 2 and 3 being intended to engage against adjacent portions of the head to facilitate proper placement of the set with respect to the head and it is intended that they shall be then held immovable against the head while the tool is being operated to effect permanent attachment.

The portions 1, 2 and 3, furthermore, are intended to receive pressure from the head for moving the set and head as one to perform the attaching operation as will be presently again referred to.

The set structure shown in these figures is provided with a plurality of tangs as 4:, 5 and 6 formed as integral parts of the material of base L and bendable with respect to said base. The tangs 1 and 5 are shown to extend from the upper margin of the base while the tang 6 extends from the lower margin. Th se tangs may be of the disposition as mentionet and illustrated or otherwise as preferred but all are positioned so that when the set has been moved against the head, as above cited with respect to the portions 1, 2 and 3 the tangs will stand normally out of engagement with the head but will be presented toward adjacent wall surfaces of the head so that they may be readily bent up into impaled engagement with the head.

A doll head is indicated by the reference character A.

The tool illustrated for supporting and attaching this set includes a plunger as 7 slidably mounted within the bore 8 of a carrying member 9 and urged outwardly of said bore by means of a spring 10. The outer end portion as 11 of the plunger is shaped to conform to and fit within the hollow interior of thetongue portion G of the set for supporting said set during the time while the doll head is being placed in position thereover as indicated in Fig. 1, and a guide stop 12 is provided engaging within a longitudinal slot 13 formed in the plunger having an end wall 14; for engaging the stop to limit outis moved relative to the anvil so that the tangs are pressed against the anvil.

Prior to the attaching operation the set is supported solely by the movable plunger 7, the plunger being at this time in its elevated position as in Fig. 1. lVhen a set has been thus placed upon this plunger the operator proceeds to place the head over the tool and set and when he has satisfied himself. by observation, that the head and set are in proper co-related position he applies pressure against the head and hence against the set as above explained, to move the head and set as a unit downwardly so as to bring the tanggs of the set against the anvil, continuing downward n ovement causing the anvil relatively to bend the tangs against and into impaled relation within the material of the head.

It is an important feature of this tool that its operation for driving the tangs is effected without any relative movement of the set with respect to the head, since by this arrangement the operator is able to accuratelv position the set with respect to the mouth opening of the head and to proceed with the attaching operation without disturbing that position.

It is noted furthermore that the anvil is disposed with respect to the set so that the inner or under face of the base portion L of the set will engage, or be engaged by, the anvil. as illustrated in Fig. 2. to limit the distance to which the tangs of the set may be driven into the head.

Pressure of the head and set against the anvil portion of the tool may be effected by simple hand pressure against the head if desired but if preferred the tool may include as a part thereof a lever 16 pivotally mounted as at 17 and having a presser cushion 18 thereon adapted to engage the head adjacent the mouth portion of the head for moving the head and set against the anvil, as illustrated in Fig. 8. Any means may be provided for operating the lever but it is usually sufiicient to have merely a handle as 19 thereon for this purpose.

A. particular advantage attained by the use of the lever as a part of the tool is that pressure thereof against the head is in a fixed direction with respect to the anvil predetermined by the manner in which the lever is llic which may be attached to a permanent sup port or table as 21 by any approved means as through the medium of a standard as 22 fixed to said support, and the pivot bearing 17 for the lever 16 may be carried upon an extension as 23 of this standard.

In the structure illustrated in Figs. 4 to 7 the set is essentially the same as before in that itincludes the base L, the tongue portion G,

' 'ture that the tool itself shall provide means the teeth H, and the bendable tangs, here indicated by reference characters 24 and 25, and it provides spaced portions, as here indicated 2626, for engaging inner surface parts of the head to define the position of the set with respect to the head preparatory to the attaching operation.

The tool illustrated in these figures includes a slidably mounted member as 27, corresponding with plunger 7, and adapted to support the set, the member 27 being mounted to slide upon a pair of uprights as 28 28 and being urged upwardly by a compression spring 29 in the same general way as is plunger 7 by spring 10. The upper ends of the uprights 28- 28 are shaped to provide anvil surfaces as ;-lO30 corresponding with the anvil 15, disposed for engaging the tangs 24:25 to bend said tangs relative to the remainder of the set into impaled engagement within the material of the doll head in the same general manner as the tangs are bent by anvil 15 in the previous figures.

It is a feature of the present structure that the plunger-like member 27 is formed to provide channels as 3132 therein adapted to 1 loosely receive the tangs 2-l25 respectively and thus to not only serve for guiding the tangs during the bending operation but to hold the set in a predetermined position upon the plungerdike member, it being noted that the base portion L of the set in this instance rests upon a simple flat surface as 33 of the member 27.

It is a further feature of the present struc for directly engaging against the material of the head to fix the position of the tool, and hence of the set, with respect to the head prior to and during the operation of bending the tangs home. To this end the drawings show the member 27 of the tool as being formed with a plurality of knife-edge corners as 34-43% arranged adjacentto the entering ends of the tangs adapted to engage against adjacent parts of the inner surface of the doll headfat the time when the doll head is placed over the set preparatory to the attach ing operation. These portions 34-34 bite into the surface of the head to a suficient extent to prevent likelihood of accidental shifting of the head with respect to the set during the tim while the tangs are being bent toward and into the head and they serve either in conjunction with the engagement between the set and head as above cited with respect to portions 26 or they may serve whether said engagement between the. set and head be present or not.

Since the biting edges 3434 are carried upon the member 27 it follows that they will maintain biting engagement with the doll head with increasing efiectiveness during downward movement of the member 27 by the head, thus avoiding possibility of accidental movement of the head with respect to the set particularly while the tangs are being driven into the material of the head.

The pressure applying lever 16 illustrated in Fig. 8 may obviously be used in connection with the structure Figs. 4 to 7 if desired.

As many changes could be made in this construction without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the following claims, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description, or shown in the accompanyingdrawings, shall be interpreted as illustrative only and not in limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. A tool by which to attach a mechanism within a doll structure where the mechanism has an attaching part movable with respect to the remainder of the mechanism into attaching position, said tool having one part to engage the mechanism for supporting the mechanism, said tool having another partintended to engage the attaching part of the mechanism for moving said attaching part to attaching position, said tool including means by which the two mentioned parts thereof are connected for movement one to- :ward the other for thereby bringing the second mentioned part into operative engagement with the attaching part of said mechanism, and resilient means to permit relative movement of said two parts of the tool but normally holding said two parts of the tool 7 taching part to attaching position, the tool including means by which the first mentioned part is movable with respect to the second part by pressure of the head and set thereagainst to thereby eliect operation of the second mentioned part, and means interengaging between said two parts of the tool effective to permit movement of the first part with respect to the second part but serving to normally hold said parts against relative movement.

3. A tool by which to attach a tongue and teeth set *ithin a doll head where the set comprises one part to engage the doll head to define the position of the set with respect to the head and another part consisting of bendable tangs arranged to stand out of engagement with the head when said first mentioned part is brought against the head but being bendable into impaled relation within a the material of the head to serve for permanently attaching the set within the head, said tool comprising means to receive and support the set in position to receive the doll head thereover against the set, and means effective to bend the tangs into impaled rela tion within the material of the head.

i. A tool by which to attach a tongue and teeth set within a doll head where the set comprises one part to engage the doll head to deline the position of the set with respect to the head and another part consisting of bendable tangs arranged to stand out of engagement with the head when said first mentioned part is brought against the head but being bendable into impaled relation within the material of the head to serve for permanently attaching the set within the head, said tool comprising means to receive and support the set in position to receive the doll head thereover against the set, and means ellective in consequence of pressure of the head against the set to bend the tangs into impaled relation within the material of the head.

A tool by which to attach a mechanism within a doll structure, said tool comprising means to support the mechanism in a position to receive the doll structure thereover, said tool also comprising means to engage the doll structure to retain the mecha nism in a desired position with respect to the doll structure, said tool also comprising means by which to eil'ect attachment of the mechanism to the doll structure, and said tool being constructed to permit movement of both the set supporting means and the head engaging means with respect to the attachment effecting means to thereby cause operation of said attachment effecting means.

6. A tool by which to attach a tongue and teeth set within a doll head where the set has bendable tangs adapted to be impaled into the material of the head for attaching the set within the head, said tool comprising means to support the set in position to receive a doll head thereover, said tool also comprising means to engage the head to retain the set in a desired position With respect to the mouth opening of the head, and said tool also comprising means by which to bend said tangs into impaled relation within the material of the doll head.

7. A tool by which to attach a mechanism within a doll structure where the mechanism has an attaching part movable with respect to the remainder of the mechanism into attaching position, said tool having one part to engage the mechanism for supporting the mechanism in position to receive the doll structure thereover, said tool having another part intended to engage the attaching part of the mechanism for moving said attaching part to attaching position, said tool including means by which the first mentioned part is movable with respect to the second mentioned part by pressure of the head and set thereagainst to thereby effect operation of the second mentioned part, resilient means to permit relative movement of said two parts but so ving normally to hold said parts against relative movement, and manually operable means to engage the doll structure eiiective to move the doll structure and said mechanism with respect to said second mentioned part for effecting the operation of the second mentioned part.

8. A. tool by which to attach a tongue and teeth set within a doll head, said tool comprising a carrying member, a set-supportingmember movably mounted upon the carrying member adapted to support the set in a position to receive a doll head thereover, resilient means urging the set-supporting member in one direction with respect to the carrying member but permitting movement of the supporting member with respect to the carrying member in the opposite direction, and the carrying member having a part adapted to engage an attaching part of the set to thereby eli'ect attachment of the set within the doll head incident to movement of the supporting member in said mentioned opposite direction.

9. A tool by which to attach a tongue and teeth set within a doll head where the set has bendable tangs adapted to be impaled into the material of the head for attaching the set within the head, said tool comprising means to support the set in position to receive a doll head thereover, said tool also having means disposed adjacent to the tangs of the set adapted to bite into the surface of the head to retain the set in a desiredposition with respect to the mouth opening of the head, and said tool also comprising means effective to engage and bend said tangs into impaled relation within the material of the doll head.

10. A tool by which to attach a mechanism within a doll structure Where the mechanism has bendable tangs adapted to be impaled into the material of the doll structure for attaching the mechanism within said structure,

said tool comprising means to support the mechanism in position, said tool also comprising means to engage the doll structure to retain the mechanism in a desired position with respect to said doll structure, and said tool also comprising means by Which to bend said tangs into impaled relation Within the material of the doll structure.

In testimony whereof I alfix my signature.

' SAMUEL MARCUS. 

